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and SO yean ago.
10 YEARS AGO
July 24. 1953 (Friday)
During the next few days,
members of the Jackson coun
ty court will meet with archi
tects to consider preparation
of plans for an annex to the
county courthouse, Judge J.
B. Coleman said today.
Washington - A representa
tive for Northwest Natural
Gas company said yesterday,
his firm has not abandoned ef
forts to bring natural gas into
the Pacific Northwest.
20 YEARS AGO
Jul 24. 1943 (Saturday)
County Agent Robert G.
Towler reports gram tnresn
Ins In full swing.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Old
timers claim there has been
no summer yet. However, a
rather heavy thaw has pre
vailed for about a week."
30 YEARS AGO
July 24. 1933 (Monday)
. Price of bread for some
grades advanced in Medford.
Caravan of Portland busi
ness men arrive, guests at
banquet.
40 YEARS AGO
July 24, 1923 (Tuesday)
Mr. and Mrs. Bert Orr re
turn from trip to Portland and
Seattle.
Nine naw planes stop here
for night and attract lurgc
crowd,
SO YEARS AGO
July 24, 1913 (Thunday)
W, F.- Arant gives up fight
to hold Job as Crater Lake
park superintendent.
Record July rainfall sweeps
away bales of hay,
What's Your I.Q.?
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even or eight it excellent) live or
tli ll teod.
1. From what portion of
the carcasses of beef and mill'
ton Is suet obtained?
, 2. "Great Mogul," "Kohl
neer," and "Cullinan" are all
well known names for what?
3. During World War II.
the U.S. armed forces used
homing pigeons for messenger
service: true or false?
4. Are there 3. 7, 10, or 12
principal ocean currents?
5. October comes from the
Latin word meaning what?
6. "Satchmo" Is a nickname
of which noted trumpet
player?
7. Which northern city, be
cause of lis many scholars and
educational institutions, fre
quently Is called "Athens of
America ?
8. Scurvy lj caused by the
lock of what vitamins in the
diet?
8. How many major planet
are known to revolve around
the sun?
10. If an auto travels 30
000 miles, wearing six tires
equally, how many miles
would each tire travel?
Aniwtrst 1, Kidneys and
loins. 2. Large diamonds,
Tru. 4. Ten. S. Eight.
Louis Armstrong. 7. Boston,
Mass. 8. Vitamin C. 9. Nin.
10. 20,000 miles.
WEDNESDAY. JULY 24. 1963
Shakespeare Time
It's that time of year again.
Never really drab, Ashland has dressed itself
in its summer finery to prepare for the annual
influx of visitors from all walks of life, and from
all parts of the world.
Colorful banners and pennants line the
streets. Lithia park never looked greener. There
is a special light of pride and welcome in the
eyes of the town's residents.
From the vine-covered theater on the side
of the hill overlooking the park, one can hear,
almost any time of day
voices declaring some of the sweetest words in
the English language.
Tonight, the Oregon Shakespearean festival
opens its 23rd annual season the longest, and
we hope most successful, run in its brilliant his
tory. I ONG SINCE, questions about the economic
benefit of the festival to this area have been
settled.
For the next few weeks, a "Vacancy" sign in
an Ashland motel will be about as rare as a First
Folio. Some reservations have been made a year
in advance, and many tourists will be making
them again this year before they leave.
Dining facilities in the valley will be taxed
in the days ahead as chefs and waitresses hurry
to serve meals in time for their patrons to make
the opening curtain.
Other attractions in
Oregon Caves and Crater Lake, will be visited
by thousands of play-goers who want to spend
their day-time hours profitably.
The money that will be spent in sporting
goods stores, department stores and supermar
kets by tourists who came four days to see four
plays is literally incalculable.
MO, ALL of that is pretty clear. If anything,
we regret that the festival is too often re
garded as just a money-making proposition.
It is immeasurable, but we think of ultimately
greater significance is the vast enrichment that
the plays can bring to the lives of the viewers.
We are sure this must be one of the most
satisfying aspects of his
JBowmer, the founder of the festival, a man who
has virtually devoted his life to proving that
Shakespeare is not just for the intelligentsia.
Because he handled the English language
better than anyone else has ever done, Shake
speare is too often deified or made into some
thing "precious" by teachers of lesser under
standing. How many students have had his plays
and poems forever ruined
structor who, misguidedly, adopted too lotty a
tone when nvesentAno- them to hia. class?
But Professor Bowmer throughout the years
has treated the plays as plays, not as exalted
! pieces of literature. And his spirit, his approach,
his understanding is clearly evident.
.
"MO MAN is a prophet in his own country,"
the saying goes. So it is, probably, that an
astounding number of valley residents have nev
er seen one of the plays. We tend, as human
beings, to undervalue that which is close at hand
and easily accessible.
There is something in the plays for everyone:
low comedy and high drama; ethereal romance
and bawdy, blush-rousing humor : violent swash
buckling action and deep,
vivid fairy land fantasy
ealism.
The characters are a
a single man could hardly encounter in one life
time: volatile Hotspur and cold imperious Cae
sar; sweet virginal Juliet
ra, who fanned the flame she fed; hghtning
witted Touchstone and poor dull Francis; charm
ing Hal, the playboy prince, and MacBeth, who
leaves a trail ol blood in his lust tor power; red
haired, man-hating Kate and clever, too-bright
Portia, who tested each
ALL OF this "live"
will nnntimitt fn n.
come, to the immense
thousands.
But we predict there
ahead, days when the festival board, which de
termines the organization's overall policy, will
have some difficult decisions to make.
The time was when the festival was unique,
when the idea of a repertory company playing
Shakespeare's plays on an authentic Elizabethan
stage was a totally new and original thing.
But success breeds imitators, and now Shake
spearean companies and festivals are virtually
commonplace in this country, not to mention the
ones in Canada and Europe.
Perhaps there is more than enough audience
to go around for them all. We hope so.
LIOWEVER, with its novelty factor rapii
disappearing, the Ashland festival may so
find ltsel
ii in competition
theaters which employ
hire name professional
huge operating budgets
or total municipal subsidization.
When the Ashland festival first began, local
townspeople built the
sold tickets and acted
is scarcely a one of them who could qualify even "Vo'Wni'w.
to "carry a spear m the present company. Ceed those of us not on gov
When and if the time comes to raise the emment payrolls. Then we
standards again something valuable will be lost.
But, some day, the amateur s zest and enthusiasm our own servants, v
may have to be replaced by the professional's u, 'cm ne government
skill and experience. And that day, perhaps, is K.
not too many years away. Ci.H.B. is rapldlv becoming a many
I r 1 r
or night, strong young
the area, such as the
creation to Angus L.
for them bv some in
contemplative thought;
and rank ale-stained
parade of humanity that
and seductive Cleopat
of her suitors.
theater the festival staff
- nsnnf fn. munv vnuva fn
benefit and delight of
are some crucial times
soon
ior survival wun otner;
the "star" system ami
actors, or which enjov'h' "T in ni8 'r,cauT
that may include partial
sets, sewed the costumes,
all the parts. Now, there
fia RIGHTS fa
"Hold ill We're not doing this for America's image
around the world. We're doing it because it's RIGHT
and for our own image of America!"
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Pro-Hatfield
To the Editor: I have sent
the following letter to Gov.
Hatfield:
My dear Mr. Hatfield: In
view of the more or less re
cent talk of your being a can
didate for vice-president of
the United States, I'll say
now, you have my vote, for
either President or vice-president.
However, may I suggest,
that we find someone named
McCoy for your running
male. A president named Mc
Coy and a vice - president
named Hatfield-or vice versa
-should be a winning combi
nation. Sho 'nuff-'twould be a
super - duper publicity gim-mick-al
least.
However I must say at this
time that if Barry Goldwater
becomes a candidate I shall
not vote for him. It strikes me
he is much too conservative.
I'll allow-I may be wrong in
stating my position.
Floyd R. McCabe
Mt. Pitt Star rt.
Butte Falls, Ore, '
Eclipse
To the Editor: Friday,
TDBTE (the Day Before the
Eclipse) was indeed a remarK-
able day!
Upon looking at the front
page of our favorite newspa
per, we were confronted by a
UPI sketch of a "Sunscope."
Suddenly, we were amazed by
the Rube Goldbergian sim
plicity of the arlist: Not only
did he depict the sun creeping
through a pinhole, but he
squeezed a boy's big, fat,
head through an aperture
much too small for his status
quo.
Question: Who was the in
genious head shrinker capable
of such a miracle? And, by
what strange alchemy did he
restore the size of the boy s
BFH' after it was lodged in
the box?
Needless to say, we en
joyed the eclipse a la TV and
next day read all about it in
our slill favorite NP.
George Distcll
156 Vashll Way
Medford.
Tentacled Moniter
To the Editor: Congratula
tions, Mr. Allen, on your edi
torial of July 18, "Uncle Sam
-Bralnwashcr." You now see
the hand of Uncle Sam as a
threat to your business, and
quite naturally and most ad
mirably you speak out.
May I lake it you now real
ize the validity of the com
plaints of one of our area's
largest industries concerning
encroachments of government
control in the form of bureau
"acceptable" practices. Ac
ceptable practices which are
not merely recommendations
but strict rules. Failure to
comply results in complete
closure of an industry at the
whim of a government bu
reau employee, in many cases
Just out of school with no
practical business knowledge,
! but full knowledge of the
i power he wields over a vast
Industry and gloating that the
! industrialist is at his mercy.
The more controls he can
m,.k iH,wirv accept, the
j more government employees
j inr(,cr hc bureai,. the larger
the government, the greater
the number of government
employees to vote additional
controls which create more
!Ms and on and on ad mfini-
MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON
SMALL I WW
AMU1CMS I m I
name and address of the writer.
the case.
tentacled monster seeking to
enslave the taxpayer who
nurtures him.
I quote Edmund Burke who
said, "The only thing neces
sary for the triumph of Evil
is that good men do nothing."
Again congratulations, Mr.
Allen, and continue to speak
out.
L. P. Schafer,
. P. O. Box 162,
Shady Cove, Ore.
Freedom b Patriots
To the Editor: I wish re
spectfully to disagree with
Mrs. Ernest Santo's thinking,
as expressed in her letter of
72263, regarding (1) free
dom, (2) super-patriots.
(1) Freedom is, primarily, a
God-given right of all crea
tures, human or other. Cur
tailment of this gift is inspired,
in most cases, by man in his
desire to further his own posi
tion, ambition or wealth. Cap
tivity, slavery or curtailment
of freedom of others is rarely
found among any forms of life
except the human.
Freedom, as we use it, Is a
relative word with a verv
elastic meaning, in that cer
tain freedoms of yesterday
are impositions today and
vice versa. As the population
increases, individual Freedom
diminishes. One person's free
dom rightfully ceases when
it infringes upon that of an
other. To say, Mrs. Santo, that
when the government controls
the people they become
slaves, Is only partially cor
rect since we must have laws
and regulations by which to
live, since human nature is
what it is. Therefore it right
fully becomes a function of
government to protect their
subjects from the greedy and
unscrupulous.
I only know what I've read
of Lincoln but I can person
ally remember some of the
reactions to Teddy Roosevelt's
"trust and busting" actions,
based upon the Sherman Anti
Trust Act of 1902. The early
1900s saw a lot of legal ac
tion against monopolies. In
short, the Government was
compelled to step in to as
sure freedom in business and
trade.
The 1920s saw a great
growth of monopolies under
Presidents Harding, Coolidge
and Hoover, while the depres
sion of the 1930s called for
further controls in this field,
thus pointing up the need of
government Intervention to
maintain a more nearly equal
freedom among its people.
(2) As to super-patriots, my
reading of the history of our
country does not reveal that
the Paul Reveres, George
Washingtons and Patrick Hen
rys reached the status of pa
triots until the cause they
espoused became victorious,
and I hate to think what
would have been their lot had
they not won.
I i.m told, and can well be
lieve, that the history of Eng
land rates them and many
others as rebels and reaction
aries, much the same as we
rate the Communists of today.
They rcbeled against the
established government of
that time.
The Lincolns and Teddy
Roosevelts you mention were
regarded by many of their
time as liberals, radicals, etc.,
etc. It Is one thing to be a
real super-patriot and quite
another to be a rabble-rouser,
a calamity-crier who looks
for wlrardry and witch-craft
behind each thing they do not
understand or agree with.
C. R. Burrill
834 1 j Cherry St.
Central Point, Ore.
Weekly Editor Predicts Dismal
For Zip Mail, But Bonanza for
By LYLE C. WILSON
United Press International
Guest conductor and also
subject of today's essay will
be Ernest F. Lyons, who
should be the
envyof every
press associa
tion and news
paper work
ing stiff who
m a n e u v ers
this piece to
ward print or
into the waste
basket. Lyons
WlllOD yiuuau.y uoo
1 UI.. u ..
the best job in journalism. He
is editor of the Stuart, la
News which means that he
works and goes fishing in the
Stuart-Jensen Beach area of
east coast Florida
The News is a weekly, fat
with local news, advertising
and pictures each Thursday
It easily would rate among
the 10 best weeklies in tne
United States. The combina
tion of an exceptionally good
newspaper in the exceptional
ly delightful Stuart-Jensen
Beach area is what makes
Lyons' job, maybe, the best
in journalism.
Lyons is a friendly man
slow to anger. The Post Of
fice Department's new zip
code, however, is too much
for Editor Lyons. He says it
will be a flop and he fears
it will be the most expensive
burden on business and indus
try since taxes. In the News,
Lyons wrote:
"The U.S. printing indus
try should chip in for a solid
gold monument to Postmas
ter General F. Edward Day.
"His new zip-code numbers,
coming as they do ahead of
dog days, will be a shot-in-tne
arm to the printers -in tn
otherwise dull period and will
cost American business untold
Strictly Personal
By Sydney
(ci Field Enterprises, inc.
IMPOSSIBLE DEMAND
Those who are looking for a
distillation of wisdom, for a
quick and easy magic formula
to lead tnem
to the truth,
should be told
an ancient
Arab fable.
translated 1 n
ISllbfTn
forms
n a tole
France, M a u-
OV - J i"'ce Kues and
Charles - B a -
, 1
Barrla
douin: Long
ago, a certain Sultan asked
the sages and dervishes of his
land to provide him with wis
dom. The learned men imme
diately began collecting the
books whose contents they
considered most valuable. Fi
nally, a long caravan appear
ed before the Sultan - a hun
dred camels laden with thou
sands of books.
"This is too much," said the
Sultan, "I could not read all
that. It is for you wise men to
extract for me a judicious se
lection of the very best books,
the only essential ones. Go
and do this!"
The sages set to work
againj they re-read the
books, argued and calcu
lated, discarded this, re
tained that. At last a small
party of sages appeared be
fore the Sultan with a sin
gle camel laden with books.
Again he said. "You have
done a good job - but there
are still far too many books.
Distill them into one vol
ume, so that it will be
enough for me to read this
single book in order to pos
sess all that the wisest men
of all the centuries have de
duced and thought."
A few more months went
by. during which the wise
men labored and did their
utmost to extract the quin
tessence of wisdom. At last
the Grand Dervish appear
Quotes From
By UNITED PRESS
Washington - HW - Sen.
pealing for the passage of a
"To be always at the
the first to get the pink slip:
room attendant and never
manager - this is the shameful
the 1 per cent oi our population whost skin is not white."
Miami Beach - Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, ad
dressing the National Governors' Conference:
"For the first time since
there are omens of change in
West. Profound changes are
members of the Communist ' bloc. New altitudes toward
dealing with the West are being manifested by the prin
cipal nation in the Communist bloc.''
Los Angeles - Superior Judge Burnett Wolfson. when
told that a real estate salesman wants to change his name
to Peter Lorie because so many people have told him he looks
like actor PettT Lorre.
"1 don't question this man's right ta change hit name.
Bui why cut of 111 million
Why does a man look tor trouble?"
Harrison, N. J. - Patrolman Dennis Dacey. describing
the condition of passengers on a commuter train shortly after
It rammed a switch engine.
"Thty didn't know what
in shock. Everyone seemed to
millions of dollars
"Indeed, if we were in the
printing business (the News
has no job shop), we would
call in our salesmen and jive
them a pep talk. 'Get out
there boys and sell! Every
letterhead and envelope in
the U.S.A. is out-of-date. They
got no zip!'
"And there would be a
sense of urgency in our at
tempt to get this business,
the sweetest printing plum
since the phone companies
changed over to the dial sys
tem. "For" common sense would
tell us that zip is going to be
a dismal flop and we'd better
make hay while the sun
shines. Human beings just
aren't made like computers
and it would take a comput
ing system to remember all
of the zip numbers of all the
correspondence in which the
average person engages. The
general idea that Postmaster
General Day is trying to sell
is that, if you send it by zip
it will go by fast U.S. mail;
if not by zip it will go by
slow U.S. mule.
"There is only one cure for
it, another mammoth printing
job listing the zip numbers of
every post office in the Unit
ed States, a copy to be fur
nished every person using the
U.S. mails. And even the firm
that prints the Sears Roebuck
catalogs would be glad to get
that order. We predict that it
will be a flop."
The beauty of Lyons' job is
that he can do something af
firmative about his frustra
tions. When, for example, he
is overcome by some such
enormity as Postmaster Gen
eral Day's zip-code, Lyons can
rig a eel skin on a line and
take a 30-pound snooK irom
the St. Lucie River.
J. Harris
ed alone before the Sultan,
with a single book, bound
in the finest Cordova lea
ther. The Sultan was on his
way to the harem, and
hardly stopped.
"This is very good." he
said, "but it is too much:
from this volume extract
for me a single phrase
which contains all that is
needful to know, at the
grain of incense contains all
the perfume and releases it
when it is burnt in the
censer." ' '
'
The Grand Dervish set to
work and finally presented to
the Sultan this sentence on a
sumptuous parchment: "Man
is born feeble and naked. He
increases in strength and de
sire. He obtains less by his
strength then he covets by
his desire; then he declines
and dies."
The Sullan, setting out on
a new war, was furious. "I
know this!" he exclaimed.
"You are all pretentious ras
cals!" And the moral to be drawn
from this tale was given by
Alain, when he wrote: "Cul
ture is not transmitted, and
cannot be summarized." But
the Sultans of today are still
asking, and the Dervishes are
still trying to meet this im
possible demand.
AicCone Asks Better
Retirement System
Washington - IUPI) - Central
Intelligence Agency Director
John A. McCone asked a
House armed service subcom
mittee Tuesday for a better
retirement system for U. S.
agents.
McCone said the system
should be similar to that of
the foreign service. He did
not reveal any more details of
his proposal in public session
and after he announced it the
subcommittee went into clos
ed session.
the News
INTERNATIONAL
Joseph S. Clark (D-Pa.), ap
fair employment practices bill
end of the hiring linei always
always the sweeper or wash.
the machine operator or sales
role in which w have cast
the beginning of the cold war.
the climate between East and
developing In relations among
names did he choose this one?
they were doing. They were
have bathed In heeds.
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter
fiz) 1963, The
THE DEFENSE OF
THE DOLLAR
The administration program
for dealing with the deficit in
our balance of payments is
quite evident
ly provisional.
Som e t h i n g
had to be
done, because
the deficit has
not really
been reduced
in the past
year. But only
p r o visional
1i
uppmann measures
were judged to be practical in
the present climate of inter
national finance.
The most serious proposal is
to check the outflow of dollars
for foreign investment. This
is to be done by taxing the
sale to Americans by foreign
ers of long-term foreign se
curities. This tax is to last for
two years, ending on Aug. 16,
1965. It would make it more
expensive for foreigners to
raise money in the United
States' capital market.
Direct investment abroad
bv American companies in
plant and equipment would
not be affected.
N'
O ONE can be certain that
these measures and the
underlying situation will
bring American payments in
to balance in two years. How
ever, even if they do, as the
President allowed, As we
close our payments gap, we
will cut down on our provi
sion of dollars to the rest of
the world."
This will put serious diffi
culties in the way of an ex
pansion of world trade and
economic development. If de
flationary pressures develop,
as is probable, there will be
needed big reforms in the in
ternational monetary system.
It is perhaps fair to say that
while the administration has
been in the past opposed to
such reforms, they have been
favored by the British, who
share with us the burdensome
honor and privilege of provid
ing the world with a reserve
currency. There are many
American experts within the
administration and outside it
who favor major reforms.
And the President himself
has recently shown concern
and interest.
BUT the Treasury has been
taking the position that
the open discussion of any
major change in the world
monetary system would shake
confidence in the soundness
of the dollar. The only re
forms and remedies that nre
safe and sound are those
which can be arranged pri
vately and carried out with
a minimum of publicity by ar
rangements with foreign fi
nance ministers and central
bankers. The Treasury is hop
ing to maintain confidence in
the dollar by the time-hon
ored banking rule of not al
lowing anything to let the
dollar be questioned.
While measures may be nec
essary to enlarge the reserves
at the base of the internation
al monetary system, these
measures must not be talked
about publicly or treated as
important, but must be made
to appear as an unalterable,
rock - like monetary system.
The rule of our conduct must
be, therefore, that the reform
of the monetary system must
come after, and not before, we
have closed our own payments
gap.
Proceeding according t o
this austere principle, the
Treasury has been active in
devising arrangements to pro
tect the dollar against bear
raids by speculators. And in
this it has had admirable co
operation from foreign cen
tral banks and finance minis
ters, including notably the
French. But these arrange
ments were not designed to
solve the underlying balance
of payments problem. With
regard to that, as Secretary
Dillon told the Joint Econom
ic Committee on July 12,
progress has been "disappoint
ingly slow and uneven over
the past 12 months."
TWAT is why the President
has just sent his long mes
sage to Congress which in
cludes among other things the
proposal for a two-year emer
gency tax to cut down Ameri
can foreign investments. De
spite all the efforts at home
and abroad to close the gap.
the "hard core of our deficit"
is greater by well over a bil
lion dollars than the appar
ent deficit.
For the accounts include a
number of what Secretary
Dillon calls "special transac
tions," which cannot be re
peated very often. Thus there
has been prepayment on old
debts. There have been ad
vanced payments on military
purchases which will soon be
completed.
Not counting these special
transactions, the deficit is still
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Washington Post
at the 1962 level, which is
much too high. This leaves
the administration with the
task of trying to increase our
dollar receipts by increasing
our exports and encouraging
investment by foreigners in
the United States, and of re
ducing our dollar outflow by
(1) cutting military expendi
tures abroad, which are $2.4
billion, (2) cutting foreign aid,
which is $3.5 billion, (3) cut
ting down on private foreign
investment, , which is $2.5
billion.
ALTHOUGH the President
and the Secretary of the
Treasury are trying to sound
confident, it is a hard task
which they have set them
selves. A big expansion of ex
port trade is not going to be
had easily in this time of
sharpening commercial com
petition. The military expenditures
cannot prudently be red.ieed
until and unless there is a
much greater accommodation,
with the Soviet Union than is
yet in prospect. Foreign. aid,
which looks like the easiest
mark, turns- out on examina
tion to consist increasingly of
"tied loans" which call for
the export of goods, but not
of dollars. That leaves foreign
investment, which in a ginger
ly way the tdministration pro
poses to tax.
It is a plausible guess that
within the two years of the
emergency tax, the Treasury
will become increasingly in
terested in international mon
etary reform. It will be real
ized generally that the bur
den of providing a reserve
currency for the world Cannot
be solely an American and
British task, but is in fact a
world obligation.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
The news this week is rath
er heavily loaded with meet
ings of one sort or another,
what has been happening at
them and what the conse
quences are likely to be.
piRST in importance, of
x course, is the big commu
nist pow-wow at Moscow.
It seems to have ended in
an agreement to disagree. As
this is written, the Chinese
are picking up their toys and
heading for home muttering
threats into what in China
passes for beards.
MfE'D a lot rather have the
" communists muttering in
their beards about what they
are going to do to each other
than GETTING TOGETHER
and talking happily about
about what they're going to
do to Us.
WHAT about the Russians?
" A dispatch from Moscow
tells us that Premier Krush
chev and U.S. Undersecretary
of State Harriman held a sur
prise hour-long meeting amid
strong indications that the
U.S., Britain and Russia are
on the verge of initialing a
limited test-ban agreement.
Russia's Mr. Krooch and
our Mr. Harriman had gone
to Lenin Stadium to watch
Russian and American ath
letes compete in a track meet.
After the meet was over, Mr.
K invited Harriman and U.S.
Ambassador Kohler to a little
reception room in the stadium
behind his box.
WHAT happened there?
The dispatch adds:
There were no immediate de
tails on what took place at the
meeting, but the atmosphere
was outwardly friendly, as it
has been since the test ban
talks got under way s week
ago. Reports have come from
both Washington and Moscow
that a treaty to ban nuclear
tests in the atmosphere, under
water and in space is ready
except for some re-phrasing.
WELL
TT
In any event
We'd rather have the com
munists thumbing their noses
at each other than getting to
gether and thumbing their
noses at us.
fS THIS side of the big
" water, one of the interest
ing stories comes from Mi
ami Beach, Florida, where the
governors of our American
states are gathered for their
55th annual conference.
What are the governors do
ing? As this is written, two prin
cipal activities are apparent:
1. The governors, more or
less without exception, ;ire
assuming postures that might
lead the lightning to hit
THEM when the big political
conventions come along next
year.
2. Most of them are tak
ing pot shots at Senator Gold
water thus indicating that
among the hopefuls. Goldwa
ter is universally regarded as
the-man to beat.